James Freeman Clarke Quotes

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• A politician thinks of the next election. A statesman, of the next generation.
• Never hurry. Take plenty of exercise. Always be cheerful. Take all the sleep you need. You may expect to be well.
• We are either progressing or retrograding all the while; there is no such thing as remaining stationary in this life.
• He who believes is strong. Strong convictions precede great actions.
• The atheist has no hope.
• Manliness means perfect manhood, as womanliness implies perfect womanhood. Manliness is the character of a man as he ought to be, as he was meant…
• When I consider what some books have done for the world, and what they are doing, how they keep up our hope, awaken new courage…
• It is no natural for a man to pray that no theory can prevent him from doing it.
• Amid all change, we desire something permanent; amid all variety, something stable; amid all progress, some central unity of life; something which deepens as we…
• I can do small things in a great way.
• One of the best things in the gospel of Jesus is the stress it lays on small things. It ascribes more value to quality than…
• Submission to duty and God gives the highest energy. He, who has done the greatest work on earth, said that He came down from heaven,…
• He who believes in goodness has the essence of all faith. He is a man of cheerful yesterdays and confident to-morrows.
• Whenever we do what we can, we immediately can do more.
• Conscience is the root of all true courage.
• Love is the spirit of life, and makes all things live.
• It may make a difference to all eternity whether we do right or wrong today.
• When we trust our brother, whom we have seen, we are learning to trust God, whom we have not seen.
• The art of life consists in taking each event which befalls us with a contented mind, confident of good. ... With this method ... rejoice…
• The bravest of individuals is the one who obeys his or her conscience.

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